Looking for feedback on a new control app under development for Android

[Drone Amplified]

We are developing an Android app for flying DJI drones, as an alternative to DJI Go. The app is called "Drone Amplified", and you can find the in-development beta version on the Google Play Store here:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.droneamplified.da

Our goal is to create an app that allows you to use your drone with confidence outdoors. You shouldn't need to rely on having a WiFi connection where you fly in order to have maps. Programming and flying a mission should be simple and easy, and the app should meet a high standard of reliability, because bugs and crashes during a mission are unacceptable.

The app is currently in development, but we have completed several useful features:
• Compatibility with the Matrice 100/600, Inspire, Mavic, and Phantom models of DJI drones
• Easily download satellite imagery for offline use
• Create and fly along waypoint missions
• Take photos, shoot video, adjust focus and exposure, and move the gimbal
• Manual with complete documentation
• Automatically logs flights as csv files on your tablet or phone (importable by dronelogbook.com)
• Import Google Earth KMZ files, KML files, and ArcGIS Georeferenced PDF files into the app to overlay them on the map during flight.
• Compass calibration

Additionally, we plan to add the ability to download elevation maps for terrain awareness and terrain-following missions.

We would like to invite you to try out the beta version of our app and give us your feedback. What features do you need it to have for it to be useful to you? What parts of the app need improvement? What features have you really wanted your drone flying app to have, that it doesn't? This is a great opportunity to shape this app to become the perfect app for you.

 

[Twenty Eight November]

I applaud you wanting to develop a new app, but most of what you have said above can already be accomplished by other well known/used apps other than DJI Go4. If you want to go above and beyond the ones that are currently out there then you need to develop one that can do all of that and the things that DJI Go 4 can do but the others can't. For example IMU calibration, all of the gimbal settings (even advanced), all the camera settings (even the advanced), etc. There are some really great alternative apps out there right now but none of them do everything.

 

[Drone Amplified]

I applaud you wanting to develop a new app, but most of what you have said above can already be accomplished by other well known/used apps other than DJI Go4. If you want to go above and beyond the ones that are currently out there then you need to develop one that can do all of that and the things that DJI Go 4 can do but the others can't. For example IMU calibration, all of the gimbal settings (even advanced), all the camera settings (even the advanced), etc. There are some really great alternative apps out there right now but none of them do everything.

Thanks for the feedback! It's helpful to know that that's what you're looking for in an app like this. We plan to implement these features in due time, and hopefully also add some ways to simplify a few of them. I really want to implement a simple way to configure video transmission on a Matrice 600, because it seems like you have to fiddle with a dozen different settings in order to get it to work.

 

[Avocet]

I applaud you wanting to develop a new app, but most of what you have said above can already be accomplished by other well known/used apps other than DJI Go4. If you want to go above and beyond the ones that are currently out there then you need to develop one that can do all of that and the things that DJI Go 4 can do but the others can't. For example IMU calibration, all of the gimbal settings (even advanced), all the camera settings (even the advanced), etc. There are some really great alternative apps out there right now but none of them do everything.

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